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Suzanne Collins is an American television writer and author. She is known as the author of The New York Times best-selling series The Underland Chronicles and The Hunger Games trilogy.



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✵ 10. August 1962
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Suzanne Collins Quotes

“They can pump whatever they want into my arm, but it takes more than that to keep a person going once she's lost the will to live.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Katniss, p. 389
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Catching Fire (2009)

“Peeta?" I creep along the bank.

"Well, don't step on me.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Great. Now I have to go back and tell Haymitch I want an eighty-year-old and Nuts and Volts for my allies. He'll love that.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Poison. The perfect weapon for a snake.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“When I break into the clearing, she's on the ground, hopelessly entangled in a net. She just has the time to reach her hand through the mesh and say my name before the spear enters her body.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Betrayal. That’s the first thing I feel, which is ludicrous. For there to be betrayal, there would have had to been trust first.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“If he wants me broken, then I will have to be whole.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Isn't it strange that I know you'd risk your life to save mine, but I don't even know what your favorite color is?”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“At the moment, the choice would be simple. I can survive just fine without either of them.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.
"You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I knew it. In this way, Peeta's not hard to predict. While I was wallowing around on the floor of that cellar, thinking only of myself, he was here, thinking of me. Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“But I don't know what to him about the aftermath of killing a person. About how they never leave you.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Instead of satisfying me, the kisses have the opposite effect, of make my need greater. I thought I was something of an expert on hunger, but this is an entirely new kind.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Katniss: 'What about you? Ive seen you in the market. You can lift hundred pound bags of flour'. I snap at him
Tell him that. Thats not nothing.
Peeta: Yes and Im sure the arena will be full of bags of flour for me to chuck at people.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Let the Seventy-forth Hunger Games begin, Cato, I think. Let them begin for real.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“It's funny, because even though they're rattling on about the Games, it's all about where they were or what they were doing or how they felt when a specific event occurred…. Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“there's plenty of blame to go around.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Gale and Katniss (p. 197)
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay (2010)
Context: "I don't stand a chance if he doesn't get better. You'll never be able to let him go. You'll always feel wrong about being with me."
"The way I always felt wrong kissing him because of you," I say.

“The raw hunk of meat that used to be my enemy makes a sound, and I know where the mouth is. And I think the word he's trying to say is 'please'. Pity, not vengeance sends my arrow flying into his skull.”

Suzanne Collins

“I remember everything about you," says Peeta, tucking a loose strand of hair behind my ear. "You're the one who wasn't paying attention.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Variant: You have a... remarkable memory."
"I remember everything about you. You're the one who wasn't paying attention.
Source: The Hunger Games

“I do think you're mad and I'll still go with you.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Star-crossed lovers desperate to get home together. Two hearts beating as one. Romance.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“What was that you were saying just before the food arrived? Something about me… no competition… best thing that ever happened to you…”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“If you are not trying to hold on to time, you are not so afraid of losing it.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“Why don't I just pretend I'm on camera, Plutarch?" I say.
"Yes! Perfect. One is always much braver with an audience," he says. "Look at the courage Peeta just displayed!"
It's all I can do not to slap him.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Just the perfect touch of rebellion," says Haymitch "Very nice."
Rebellion?”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“It's as if I'm Finnick, watching images of my life flash by. The mast of a boat, a silver parachute, Mags laughing, a pink sky, Beetee's trident, Annie in her wedding dress, waves breaking over rocks. Then its over.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.”

Suzanne Collins

“Maybe I'll be like the man in the Hanging Tree still waiting for an answer.' Gale who I have never seen cry has tears in his eyes. To keep them from spilling over. I reach forward and press my lips against his. We taste of heat, ashes and misery.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“I don't know what it is with Finnick and bread, but he seems obsessed with handling it.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“And so I'm stupid for thinking they might be useful. Because of something Johanna Mason said while she was oiling her breasts for wrestling.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“Roses. Wolf mutts. Tributes. Frosted Dolphins. Friends. Mockingjays. Stylists. Me. Everything screams in my dreams tonight.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Courage only counts when you can count.”

Suzanne Collins book Gregor the Overlander

Source: Gregor the Overlander

“Maybe I'd think that, too, Caesar," says Petta bitterly, "if it weren't for the baby."
There. He's done it again.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“To this day, I can never shake the connection between this boy, Peeta Mellark, and the bread that gave me hope, and the dandelion that reminded me that I was not doomed.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“So I learned to hold my tongue and to turn my features into an indifferent mask so that no one could ever read my thoughts.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Katniss Everdeen, p. 5
Source: The Hunger Games trilogy, The Hunger Games (2008)

“Sometimes when things are particularly bad, my brain will give me a happy dream.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Katniss: I guess all those hours decorating cakes paid off.
Peeta: Yes, frosting. The final defence of the dying. (252)”

Suzanne Collins

“Well, I can't leave Mags behind," says Finnick. "She's one of the few people who actually likes me.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“hey. I just wanted to make sure you got home," I say. "Katniss, I live three houses away from you," he says.”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“I'm going to be the Mockingjay.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay

“Look how we take your children and sacrifice them and there’s nothing you can do. If you lift a finger, we will destroy every last one of you. Just as we did in District Thirteen.”

Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games

Source: The Hunger Games

“Katniss, there is no District Twelve…”

Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire

Source: Catching Fire

“All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.”

Suzanne Collins book Mockingjay

Source: Mockingjay